In the memo, Brumby’s managing director Deane Priest says there are some simple things franchisees can do to find extra sales.

“We are doing an RRP (recommended retail price) review at present which is projected to be in line with CPI (Consumer Price Index), but take the opportunity to make some moves in June and July,” Mr Priest wrote in the June edition of Backmix – an internal publication.

“Let the carbon tax take the blame, after all your costs will be going up due to it.”

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Thanks for this story – I made a nice blog about it because Canada is still denying carbon taxes as a partial solution.
Tony Abbott wrongly claims taxes hit every one ,but in fact, taxes are as frequently used to nudge society into a new direction as frequently as they are used to gain extra revenue.
New taxes on fags don’t hit non smokers like me ,but might just encourage my boss to finally quit for good this time.
Carbon pollution is a sin and this tax addresses that.
Local bakeries than generate their own electricity off roof panels and sell at the shop could bankrupt the regional bakery selling its bread over wide areas by carbon-burning truck !

It would be interesting to see the response of all the Bolts out there to this story:

The consumer watchdog has swooped on two solar companies promoting rooftop PV panels with the ”misleading” claim that the carbon price would push up electricity prices by 20 per cent.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission deputy chairman Michael Schaper told the National Times that the companies, one in the ACT and the other in Western Australia, had distributed advertising flyers urging people to buy solar panels to avoid soaring electricity costs.

The ads drew on unsubstantiated claims made by lobby groups that the price of electricity would rise 20 per cent immediately and up to 400 per cent by 2019 because of the carbon price.

On the one hand, the government is “totalitarian” for policing misleading claims about the impact of carbon pricing on the prices of goods and services. But then they despise the solar industry because it’s competing with the traditional forms of energy production, and is currently more expensive.